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Defendant Susanne G. in the Munich Higher Regional Court
Photo: Sven Hoppe / dpa
Susanne G. is a petite woman with gray, shoulder-length hair.
She is 55 years old, an alternative practitioner, married, mother of two sons and, according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, is a right-wing extremist who is willing to use violence.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office assumes that the woman from the district of Nürnberger Land was on the verge of perpetrating an attack on police officers, local politicians or Muslims.
She is said to have already spied out victims of attacks.
Since Thursday she has had to answer to the State Security Senate of the Higher Regional Court in Munich for preparing a serious act of violence, disruption of the public peace and threats.
At Amazon she bought a "textbook for professional killers"
"The defendant represents an ideology shaped by National Socialist and racist convictions," says the indictment, which public prosecutor David Rademacher presented that day in the high-security hall in Munich-Stadelheim.
»It is hostile to the state and social order of the Federal Republic of Germany.
She rejects people of foreign origin, Jews and Muslims. "
In May 2020, according to the indictment, Susanne G. bought a “textbook for professional killers” and the books “Die Autobombe.
Know your opponent "and" Explosives and explosives attacks ".
She is said to have taken instructions for building a so-called gasoline hand bomb from the book "Die Autobombe".
The investigators found the materials for this in their Jeep Cherokee after their arrest in September 2020.
In the footwell of the passenger seat was a ten-liter canister with gasoline, fuses, three gas cartridges with a propane-butane mixture, fireworks, four empty plastic bottles, storm matches and disposable gloves.
Investigators also found zip ties, a bulletproof vest, stun gun, handcuffs, baton, switchblade and a sling with steel balls in the car.
There was a balaclava in the center console.
There is a cartridge in the envelope
Prior to this, Susanne G. is said to have sent six threatening letters to an Islamic community, a refugee aid association and two local politicians.
At the beginning of December 2019, the district administrator of the district of Nürnberger Land received a condolence card with the words "Jew and foreigner friend, shot on the terrace" - a clear reference to the murder of the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke. There are also threatening calls from a telephone booth, sometimes in silence, sometimes with the announcement: "We'll get your husband!" The district administrator's mother answered the call; the caller apparently mistook her for his wife. The next threat comes in March 2020. This time there is a rifle cartridge in the envelope and a card with the words "Last warning!"
The mayor of the Central Franconian market town of Schaittach is also threatened in January 2020: He too receives calls and a condolence card with the words "Jew and foreigner friend" in the envelope with pistol ammunition.
Mail will be back in March 2020.
"Last warning!" He must read too.
Again, live ammunition is enclosed with the card.
Suddenly she disappears
In the same month, the Turkish-Islamic community in Röthenbach in Central Franconia received a voucher card with the imprint of a pig's head and the sentence: "You will never be safe!" There is a pistol cartridge in the envelope.
A refugee aid association receives very similar mail.
At the end of March 2020, Susanne G's house and practice will be searched.
In addition to Nazi devotional items and other similar greeting cards, the investigators are said to have found a template that matched the lettering on the threatening cards.
Susanne G. did not come into custody at the time.
But the authorities keep an eye on it - until it suddenly disappears in August 2020.
On September 6, 2020, the woman is said to have checked into a hotel in Fürth under a false name.
She was arrested on September 7th when she was leaving the hotel.
Since then, Susanne G. has been in custody.
According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, Susanne G. was ready "not only to threaten homicides, but also to carry them out".
She is said to have already spied out her potential victims.
In the summer of 2020, she is said to have scouted the private cars and some apartments of more than a dozen police officers.
She is also said to have already collected detailed information about prayer times in a mosque.
Connection to the NSU environment
Susanne G. listens to all of this with lowered eyes and a mask on her face.
Next to her sit the well-known defenders Nicole Schneider and Wolfram Nahrath.
In the trial of the right-wing terrorist association "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) had defended the defendant Ralf Wohlleben.
In 2018, he was convicted of aiding and abetting nine murders by the NSU by the State Security Senate of the Munich Higher Regional Court.
But Susanne G's choice of defense lawyer is not her only connection to the NSU environment.
Wohlleben wrote letters to the naturopath while he was in custody.
Susanne G. also had correspondence with André E. According to the NSU judgment, she even picked him up from the penal institution.
E. was convicted at the time for supporting the NSU terror trio, and the arrest warrant against him was revoked.
There should be a lot of letters.
This is what co-plaintiff Harald Straßner says.
He represents the threatened district administrator in the process.
Straßner has doubts that Susanne G. acted alone.
"This is not a single perpetrator story," he says.
He trusts that the process will clarify whether the 55-year-old is possibly part of a network.
In addition to Susanne G's closeness to the NSU environment, her commitment to the right-wing extremist micro-party »Der III.
Way «known.
Klaus Armstroff, the party chairman, is sitting in the hall as a spectator that day.